Improvement in shawl-straps



*F. H. WILLIS.

Shawl-Straps.

Patented July 22,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FANNIE H. WILLIS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHAWL-STRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,024, dated July 22, 1873 application filed June 19, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

having for their principal object the more ready adjustmentof the parcel or parcels in the holder. My improvements consist, mainly, of an elastic band connected with a suitable handle.

In the drawing, (0 represents a handle, of leather or other material, either flexible or rigid, attached to each end of which is a buckle, b, which receives and holds one end of a loop-strap, 0, whose other end is attached to the end of the handle a. Each strap, 0 is placed over an elastic band, d, and buckled to the handle a, thus allowing the ready insertion of a new band when the old one is worn.

Or, instead of the loop-strap c and buckle b, the handle a may be simply formed at each end with apertures, through which the bands d may be inserted; or the elastic bands 11 may be connected with the handle in any other way that may be preferred.

By the above description, reference being had to the drawings, it will readily be seen that the elasticity of the bands d allows the package or packages to be readily inserted or withdrawn without the trouble heretofore occasioned by the unbuekling of the straps of the ordinary packageholder.

Having thus described-my improvements, what I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the elastic band (1 with a holder, at, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FANNIE H. WILLIS. Witnesses:

SAML. M. BARTON, J. O. HAYDEN. 

